The aim of this article is to analyse the cultural relations between Italy and Mexico. In particular, it seeks to examine the period in which these cultural relations were regularised and placed on an official footing. In order to understand Italian-Mexican cuThe aim of this article is to analyse the cultural relations between Italy and Mexico. In particular, it seeks to examine the period in which these cultural relations were regularised and placed on an official footing. In order to understand Italian-Mexican cultural relations it has been considered necessary to focus, first of all, the way in which the twin concepts of cultural relations and cultural diplomacy developed. Moreover, to speak about cultural relations at a political level, when cultural diplomacy properly began, we will need to go back to the XIX century, when the first cultural bilateral agreements between the two governments were stipulated. However, in the concluding section, before going deeply into the complex field of cultural diplomacy, we will try to outline the flourishing and spontaneous cultural relationship developed after the firts approaches between Mexicans and Italians during the XVII century.[+][-]